2. Is the monitoring process working, if so, what are the repercussions for failing to meet the standards set forth by the Act?

Due to the recent implementation of the Act and the problems associated with the Secretary of State's draft guidance for contaminated land, I would suspect that few local authorities are in a position to be monitoring numbers of sites under their control. There is still a major problem within the U.K. regarding who should pay for the cost of remediation of a contaminated site. It is still seen that the polluter should pay, however, due to the fact that there may have been numerous polluters and that may be now none existant, problems are abound.

I suggest that you obtain information from Environment Business Magazine (U.K.) and Contaminated Land (Graham, T; 1996; Jordans) and Contaminated Land (Tromans, S + Turrall-Clarke, R; 1996; Sweet + Maxwell).

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